Jer 40:14-15 | ESV | STEP | and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life ? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.

Jeremiah 40:14-15

14 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of ^athe Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, ^band the remnant of Judah would perish?”